Potato-planter.



No. 633,840 Patented sept. 26,1899.

L. HEAPHY.

POTATO PLANTEB. (Application fl-led July 1:, 1899.

(No Model.)

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LEONARD HEAPHY, or WATnn oWnsoU rn DAKOTA, ASSIGNOR on one- HALF TO onn I. "MONKS, OFISAME-PLAOE.

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To all whom; itmay ooncerm.

Be it known that I, LEONARD, HEAPHYmf NVatertowm'in the county of Oodington and f State of South Dakota, have inventeda new 5 and useful Improvement in Potato Planters, .of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object a potatop being bent to correspond with hole in 16 and fastened by inserting a. pin through them, '60

. planter, which can be attached to any gang, sulky, or other wheeled plow andw hich-will to drop either whole or. cut potatoes at regular intervals into afurrowfwhichhasbeenmade before planting, the potato falling to the right-hand; side of furrow? directly in front of soil being turned, so that the potatoes will The inventionconsists in certain construction and combination and arrangement of the parts, which I shall' first describe details 0f and then point out in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a wheeled plow with my improved planter I attached.

Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the dropping devices. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 3 3,, Fig. 2,- illustrating the feed-wheel. Fig. 4 is a detail perspectiveview of a portion of a spoke of the feed-wheel with the feed-carrier attached thereto. Fig. 5 is a detail view showing portions of the two plates of the feed-carrier detached. Fig. 6 is a detail view showing the plate 17 in the act of being tilted. Fig.7 is a side view of a modified form of planting device placed on shoes and covering-wheels, andFig. 8 isa transverse vertical section thereof.

To the beam A of the plow, as shown, or to V scribed above are actuated from the traveling wheels of the plow by means of sprocketany suitable part of the plow-frame my improved planter is secured by adjustable o clamps B. The said planter consists of a rectangular box or receptacle 10, provided with a semicylindrical bottom ll, terminating at one side in a well12. A shaft 13 is mounted .to turn in suitable hearings in the ends of the said box and extends a considerable dis tance beyond each side thereof. A feed- 'wheel let is secured on the shaft so as to rotate in a vertical plane, and the wheel is of such size that its rim 15 extends into the well the said rim being of a width correspond.- approximately to the width of the well.

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when desired, and is formed with a sheet metal and form the clip'ldtbybending the material between the slits made to form covered.

' 1 On each'spoke of the wheel 14: and near the rin is held a feed-carrier formed of two sn perposedlplates 16 and lT, of which the plate lfijis fixedly; and is vformed with a recess 16 adjacent said clip, while the plate 17 is pivoted to tilt on theplate 16 by a hole in anear'of .17, the ear making it'easy to change for a wider plate fingerlTP, registering with the recess 16". In making these plates I preferably stamp them out of the recess 16. V

, The box 10 is formed with a discharge-opening 10 in its end adjacent the feed-wheel, and as the latter is rotated the feed-carriers successivelycatch up the potatoes. 7 When a carrier approachesthe dischargeropening 10, a catch or trip 18, projecting from the inside of the box near such opening, engages the finger 173, which causes the latter to be depressed into the recess 16 as the wheel further revolves, thereby tilting the plate 17 and throwing the potato out of the opening into a chute 19 and thence into the furrow being In order to convey the potatoes from the hopper 20, which is snpported'at the opposite end of the-box, I secure arms 21 at suitable intervals along the shaft13,-the said arms being given sucha slant that they will pushthe potatoes toward the wheel as theshaft is rotated.

The conveying and feeding devices deintervals at which the potatoes are dropped.

As illustrated in Figs. 7 and S, the box 24 is made double-thatis, with its bottom slopin g from the middle toward each end-and the held on the spoke by aolip' 16* 55 hopper25 is placed in the middle of the box. The shaft 26 has twofeed-wheels 27 thereon, whereby the potatoes are thrown out into two chutes 28, so as to plant a double row, the earth being opened up by shoes 29 for the reception of the potatoes, which latter are covered up by the covering-wheels 30.

Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. 111 a planter for the purpose described, the combination of the rotary feed-wheel, the conveying devices arranged to convey the feed to said wheel, the pivoted feed-carriers secured to said wheel, and means for successively tilting said carriers whereby to discharge the feed, as set forth.

2. A planter for the purpose described, consisting of the box or receptacle provided with a discharge-opening, the feed-wheel mounted to rotate in a vertical plane in said box and provided with feed-carriers in the form of pivoted plates successively registering with said discharge-opening, and a trip projecting" from the inner side of said box and engaging said plates whereby to tilt the same when they approach said openings, as set forth. 3. In a planter for the purpose described, i

the combination with the box or receptacle, and the feed-wheel mounted therein, of the feed-carrier consisting of a plate secured to a spoke of the wheel, and provided with a recess, a second plate pivotally secured to and normally lying upon the first-named plate, such second plate being formed with a finger registering with the said recess, and means for engaging said finger when the wheel is rotated whereby to tilt the carrier, as set forth.

4. In a planter for the purpose described, a box or receptacle having a sloping bottom ter minating in a well and a discharge-opening, in its side adjacent said well, a shaft in said receptacle, a feed-wheel on said shaft and located partly within said well, plates fixedly secured to the spokes of said wheel, plates pivotally connected with the fixed plates and arranged to tilt thereon and a trip projecting from a side of said box adjacent the discharge-opening and in the path of the pivoted plates whereby to tilt the latter when they approach said opening. as set forth.

LEONARD HEAPIIY.

\Vitnesses:

H. D. WULRUTH', H. J. FAHNESTOCK. 

